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Elton in London: This Spurs squad is littered with players who hover aimlessly somewhere between 'average' and 'sub-par'. Worse than this is the fact that most of them were signed in a single transfer window.

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Besiktas manager Slaven Bilic: "I am frustrated. For every club it is always good when you get a point away at White Hart Lane but I think we played great football. We dominated, we passed the ball well and we definitely deserved more than this point.

"From our point of view it was a really good game of football but especially in the first half you have to score the kind of chances we had. To beat such a big club away you have to score those chances but of course I am proud of my team."

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Tottenham goalscorer and striker Harry Kane: "It is always great to get on the scoresheet but we wanted to come away with a win and to concede that late goal is very disappointing. We have to move on and look to the next match.

"It's good that there is competition for places, the manager wants competition and whenever I get the chance I want to try and impress and score and I think I did that tonight but overall we are disappointed. We have to move one from this result."

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Tottenham goalkeeper and tonight's captain Hugo Lloris: "Maybe it will be a clearer penalty on the replay. It was a tough game against a big Turkish team and maybe the teams deserved to draw. It's football - sometimes you don't play a great game but you have to know how to win. Today we went close but we conceded that late penalty. But now we have to refocus on a big game on Sunday."

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Slaven Bilic has Mauricio Pochettino in a steely handshake and is not letting go. The Besiktas manager is into an animated explanation of what has been an entertaining match. Pochettino looks like he would rather go and collect his own thoughts.

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"Definitely a penalty, and Vlad Chiriches is lucky that's not more than a yellow card. Dreadful defending. He's always got a mistake in him, a work in progress or not. And what a time to do that.

"But, really, that goal is deserved. The referee was left with no choice but to give that penalty, and Demba Ba was as cool as you like. He simply passed the ball into the bottom corner and there might still be time for Besiktas to steal a late winner."

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Bill in Kent: Spurs website said on police advisement they stopped selling tickets for the game.

Bill is correct, on Wednesday evening

the Tottenham website told fans tickets were no longer on sale, saying: "Following discussions with the Police and Local Authority, ticket sales for Thursday evening's Europa League match against Besiktas have now been closed."

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Tottenham 1-0 Besiktas

Roberto Soldado, with the sort of sad eyes that could launch a thousand charity appeals, trudges to the sidelines. Emmanuel Adebayor meets him there, slapping palms and then charging into the fray to replace the Spaniard.

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"Once again, awful Spurs defending. Demba Ba's first touch was brilliant and his shot might have skimmed the underside of the bar and gone in, were it not for a brilliant fingertip save from Hugo Lloris. The Tottenham keeper has kept his side in this game... by about five goals!"

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"That was possibly Spurs' best opening of the game. And this match has really opened up, with Besiktas chasing the equaliser but leaving spaces for Tottenham. And the crowd have really woken up. We could se a really great last 20 minutes."

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Tottenham 1-0 Besiktas

Tottenham thread together a slick passing move, culminating in Ben Davies getting his head up to pull the ball back to Harry Kane on the edge of the box. The Tottenham striker controls with his first touch, lashes a low shot with his second and is only denied by a smart save from Tolga Zengin.